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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV).

I mean is it's supposed to funny because it seem more like show that was made by someone who was insane or on durgs. Why is it even on Toonami in the first place when it makes no sense?

I just did. He's utterly insane!

He's so insane that if he had seen me type that just now he'd walk up in a cow outfit, angerly declare "How dare you call me a cow", and then proceed to calmly milk himself. Then he'd make a ton of money selling "Patch Milk", go on one of those drinking binges rich people go on, waste all of his money on booze and broads, go bankrupt, live on the streets remembering the good ol' days where he fought alongside Bo-Bobo, then Bo-Bobo would walk up and the two would have a sweet reunion and swear to continue their never-ending battle... with sushi!! After Beauty freaks out like she always does, Patch and Bo-Bobo will then have a tag team wrestling match against two pieces of sushi, in which Don Patch will get pummled and damn-near killed, causing Bo-Bobo to have a dramatic "I can't live without him" type sob-fest, but then scream "OH WELL!!" and throw him away...

That's how utterly insane Don Patch is!

Excel Saga was funny. Puni Puni Poemi was funny. Beat-to-Death Angel Dokuro-chan was funny. There are a lot of weird anime shows that are funny.

Bobobo is not funny, it's just stupid. You need to be seriously high to find it funny, so like 12 oz. mouse, it belongs on Adult Swim, if anything, so as not to encourage drug use among children.

Did anyone else pick this up? I liked the show on Cartoon Network from seeing the first 3 or 4 episodes, but thought I was missing something because there was a lot of Japanese lettering on the screen and it wasn't subtitled for you to know what it's saying. I know when shows air on tv here in the US they don't normally subtitle the signs and text so I decided to wait for the dvd to come out. I was really disappointed with the dvd because it failed to do so. I was excited about seeing some of Illumitoon's other products, but after this I don't think I'll buy another dvd from them. How does everyone else feel about signs and text being subbed or is that not such a big deal to everyone?

Depending what track you watch, this will either be a decent experience or one that is mind numbingly bad. If you watch it in English, much like Toei's releases, you won't see any of the troubles within the show for the most part. If you watch it in Japanese, you may find yourself in convulsions. I honestly could not watch past the first episode because of how poorly it's put together.

Even though the disc is bilingual, the subtitle track is a dubtitle track. It is also a dubtitle track that goes for the extra offense of being one that has the Hearing Impaired sounds included in it. But wait, let's add more insult to injury with it. While the white subtitles with black font look good and are bigger than FUNimation's similar subtitles, they're left justified similar to how AnimEigo does it. But wait, it's worse, because they're not centered on the screen but actually kept to the very left. A six word sentence is split across two lines and kept to a corner of the screen. But wait, it's even worse! If multiple people are speaking at the same time, it's all strung together. Where you would normally have:

- Hello!
- Hi, how are you?

You instead get "Hello! Hi, How are you?" on one or two lines. And that's if you're lucky. Since sentences are generally longer, they're split so it would be "Hello! Hi, how" as the first subtitle and then it flashes off and the new one is "are you?" before continuing on. It's nearly impossible to differentiate dialogue. Not that any of it really matches up since it's dubtitled. But wait, it's even worse if you can imagine. The subtitles are onscreen for such a short amount of time that even fast reading subtitle folks like myself aren't able to read what's being said before it disappears from the screen. This is so poorly executed that it goes beyond incompetence and it goes beyond what you get from the old awful bootleg Chinese subtitles from years ago that I can’t imagine that someone signed off on this. The entire way the subtitles come across simply doesn't feel like they were an afterthought, they must never have been thought about at all. It's insult upon insult upon insult upon injury.

Not content with that, no on screen text is obviously subtitled which means you miss a lot of the names and other subtitle text that's presented throughout with character names and relationships. The opening and closing songs are not subtitled either. The opening appears to be generally untouched outside of the series logo being added to the upper corner alongside the original logo. The ending sequence is left in its original Japanese as well but suffers heavily. It's essentially squished and feels like it's cropped so that a scrolling version can be presented along the left with the English language credits. The squishing is so bad that you can see a good portion of the Japanese text being cut off on the right. The credits themselves cover a decent amount of the Japanese production team but favors the English adaptation heavily as well as providing only the main English language cast. No Japanese language cast is listed here.

This is one of the worst I've seen from a company that I expected the bare minimum at least from. There is no way I can recommend this to anyone interested in the Japanese track unless you're able to watch it without subtitles.

Did anyone else pick this up? I liked the show on Cartoon Network from seeing the first 3 or 4 episodes, but thought I was missing something because there was a lot of japanese lettering on the screen and it wasn't subtitles for you to know what it's saying. I know when shows air on tv here in the US they don't normally subtitle the signs and text so I decided to wait for the dvd to come out. I was really disappointed with the dvd because it failed to do so. I was excited about seeing some of illumitoons other products, but after this I don't think I'll buy another dvd from them. How does everyone else feel about signs and text being subbed or is that not such a big deal to everyone?